On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:03:20PM +0100, bombadil wrote: > The counter values will start at zero for the new switch. > > I don't want to have rrdtool think that the counter wrapped and create > huge spikes in the graph.
The difference is unknown, so tell RRDtool the data is unknown. Then immediately tell RRDtool the counter value is zero. This way you get the following updates: 1: old switch: some value (rrdtool calculates as usual -> known rate) 2: old switch: some value (rrdtool calculates as usual -> known rate) 3: manually: "U" (known to be unknown -> unknown rate) 4: manually: "0" (known value of zero -> unknown rate) 5: new switch: some value (rrdtool calculates as usual -> known rate) 6: new switch: some value (rrdtool calculates as usual -> known rate) If the time between step 2,3 and 4 is small (1 second each) you loose virtually no data. > Is it feasible at all or should I star over with new rrd database files? I don't think this is necessary. OTOH I never done this on a large scale so I could easily be wrong. HTH Alex -- begin sig http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=alex+van+den+bogaerdt&type=1 This message was produced without any <iframe tags -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
